Online reporter

A 23-year-old man has been charged with 23 offences after a dramatic arrest in a supermarket car park south of Brisbane.

The Wynnum man was spotted by police in the car park of a Foodworks store on the corner of Macquarie Street and Ewing Road in Woodridge on Tuesday afternoon.

He was allegedly driving a car stolen from Underwood earlier in the day.

He tried to fight off police after they approached him in the car park.

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‘‘One officer sustained a minor injury to her elbow,’’ a police spokesman said.

The 23-year-old was charged with seven counts of unlawful use of a motor vehicle and six counts of burglary, as well as dangerous driving, failing to stop a motor vehicle, unlawful possession of a weapon, producing dangerous drugs and serious assault police.

He was due to face Beenleigh Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

Further south, police arrested a couple after finding a dismantled clandestine drug laboratory in the boot of their car in a car park in Nerang.

The 26-year-old woman from Worongary and the 26-year-old man from Surfers Paradise have been charged with drug and weapons offences.

The pair was due to face Southport Magistrates Court on Tuesday.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or crimestoppers.com.au.